THE Warriors horror show at the CHAN finals has once again provided a timely reminder of the precarious situation domestic football finds itself in right now.
Coach Zradvko Logarusic and his men finished bottom of the pile in
The tourney is reserved for players still plying their trade in their domestic leagues and
However, the standards of the local game have taken a knock, since those dizzy heights, and the failure by authorities to, at least, organise some competitive matches last year, badly affected the Warriors.
A proposed tournament, which had been set for last month, with the primary aim of helping the Warriors, collapsed amid some boardroom battles between ZIFA and the
The poor show in
The 56-year-old Croat is now expected to lead the Warriors in the
However, Loga is yet to win a match since he was appointed to the hot seat in February last year.
He has presided over six games, to date, including the two back-to-back
The Warriors still have two more rounds before they could learn their fate in Group H, which also features holders
ZIFA president, Felton Kamambo, feels the best for the team is yet to come and results will improve this year.
"This is a year which we feel we have to get results, especially with the national team," he told The Herald.
"We need to give our fans something to cheer about by qualifying for the
But going by the team's performance in
The position of the Warriors, who finished the tournament winless and without a point, was sealed at the conclusion of the group games on Wednesday night.
Loga's men were the only team that finished the group games without a point after
The Warriors lost all their
The Warriors completed their group stages with a 0-1 defeat by
The Warriors have since returned home and will be watching the rest of the tournament from a distance.
The quarter-finals of the tournament are scheduled to begin tomorrow.
This is the first time the Warriors have lost all their group matches at the tournament.
This is also the first time that they have scored only one goal and became the first team to be eliminated from the tournament.
The Warriors graced the inaugural event in Cote d"Ívoire in 2009.
The tournament featured eight teams which were placed in two groups of four.
The Warriors qualified for the second edition in 2011 and they again finished third with three points in their pool that included
The Warriors worst performance at the CHAN tournament, until now, had been in 2016 when they ended with one point after losing to
They failed to qualify for the 2018 edition of the tourney and had been expected to return with a bang but they came terribly short in
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